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Dedicated to my wife and her sisters of 

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Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year 1895, by 

REV. J. H. PEESHING, 
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



Standard Print, Coalport, Pa. 







ANSWERING ABRAHAM'S CALL. 

January 1st, 1861, the military forces of the United 
States was 16,367 officers and men. There were six calls 
for volunteers and three drafts, from '61 to '65, 86,724 jDaid 
comnautation. The aggregate of these nine calls reduced 
to a three years' standard, was 2,320,372. The lowest aver- 
age term of service was 14 days, the highest, 281 days. — 
91,816 answered the first call of 75,000. In the grand ag- 
gregate, 8,738 more men enlisted than were called. 







SEEKING POSITION. 



Americans awry and armies at arms antagonistically ar- 
rayed. Artillery. Antietam. Ambulances. Amputa- 
tions. Andersoiiville. Atlanta. Appomattox. 



B 



Battles. Bullets. Bayonets. BuUrun. Belleisland. 
Blockaded. Bombarded. Besieged. Burned bridges.— 
Burned barns. Brave "blues" belam betraying bellicose 
belligerants. Birney's brigade bivouacing below Beverly, 
"borrowed" beef before breakfast, baked b^ans, boiled 
beans, "bacteria" beans, beans, beans, beans. Blanket 
bouncing blackies, blinkers bulging, begging, bawling, 
bounding, bolting. 



Chickamauga. Chickahominy. Chancellorsville. — 
Chattanooga. Culpepper. Corinth. Caesar's countries 
can't compare casualties. Camps closing, cannonading, 
countermarching. Custer citing cadaverous cadences, 
cavalry charging, commanders cheering, capturing colors. 
Contrabands crying, cutting cute capers, carrying can- 
teens, cooking coffee, crunching crackers, catching 
chickens. 




DEADLY ENCOUNTER. 



D 



Donaldson's defeat decreased dissension. Devil's den 
discolored dislodging doublequicking demons. Dix. Du- 
pont. Dahlgreen. Danville. During danger, "dude" 
drummers departed dextrously despite derision. Double- 
day's^'dashing daring deeds, dynamiting Dixie, dropped 
dying, death discharged. Don't desist DECORATING. 



Enlist, enlist, enlist, echoed eiilogyums EAGLE. Ells- 
worth. Emancipation. Escape. Evacuation. Enemies. 
Editors, everybody, erstwhile everywhere eagerly engaged. 



Federals fighting. "Forward fours!" Fredericksburg. 
Fairfax. Fiveforks. Fairoaks. Fishers. Forts. Forti- 
fications. Fording. Flanking. Foraging. Fifing. Fre- 
mont's "French" furloughers fetched. Freedom's faith- 
ful flag floaters famishing, fled foes, footsore, forlorn, finally 
found friends. 

G 

Gettysburg's glorious gallantry goal gauged generations 
grudges. Grant. Garfield. Gage. Gorman. Granger. 
Grierson. Gresham. Gilmore. Geary. Gunboats. "God's 
government" game. Guerillas "gagged." Greenbacks 
genuine. Gritty "grays'" goners. Goodbye guardhouse, 
goodbye ' 'graybacks. ' ' Gather garlands girls giving graves 
Grecian glory. 

H 

Hancock. Harrison. Hayes. Halleck. Howard. — 
Hunter. Harney. Hartranft. Hooker. Howitzers hurled 
"halifax." Hissing hardware hit humanity, hit houses, 
hit horses, heaping havoc. Hounds hunting. Haver- 
sacks hollow. Hungry hospital hampered heroes hoped 
hourly, hospital hash, hominy hulls, homesick, home" 
bound, home. Harry hugged his Harriet, her heart heaved 
handling her handkerchief. Home, ham, ''heggs," honey. 
Hyacinths, hollyhocks. HAPPY HOME. Hip, hip, 
hurrah. 




LIBBY PRISON. 



Infantry. Invasion. InfanTOUS inhuman ilks invaded 
intrenchments illtreating invalids. Ironclads inundated 
intermeddlers. 



Johnnies jabber jammed. Jamestown joyful. Jones- 
boro jubilant. Jefferson's jaded jig jiffy jerked. Jeopard- 
ized, jumped justice. 

K 

Kilpatrick. Kearney. Knapp. Kelly. Kearsage. — 
Knoxdale. Kenesaw. Knapsack. Knavish kidnappers 
killed. 



LINCOLN. Logan. Lyon. Libby. Lookouts long 
loyal lines looking left let "Lucifer" loose. Liberty-loving 
lads lay lifeless. Lady lovers left lonely. Lee, like Leon- 
ideas lost. 




ABOVE THE CLOUDS. 



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Meade. Mitchel. McClellan. McClernend. Mansfield. 
Mower. McPherson. McDowell. Monitor. Marines. Ma- 
nasses. Malvern. Murfresboro. Men marching 'niongst 
monumental mounds, mid muffled martial music, makes 
many mothers mourn. Mounting mutinous mules made 
marvelous movements, mostly mixing mire. 



N 

North's navy notoriously noisy. Nozzles numerous, 
never napping. Norfolk nudged. Nocturnal nips. Nerve 
needed. Nantucket nailed. Napoleon's nonchalance noth- 
ing — notice negroes navigating nationals north. 

O 

Ord's ordinance orders often opposed. Officers obviated 
obstacles originally ostentatious. Oglesb>''s orderlies op- 
erating our onslaught, obliterated oppositions oligarchy. 



Pleasantons patriotic pioneers pontooned Pamunky, 
plundered Petersburg, provided provinder plentiful. Pris- 
oners precluding parole, passed pickets, puslied persever- 
ingly; pursued, perceived, pistol-pierced, piece-mealed, 
pitifully perished. 




CAPTURING ESCA1»J:D PRISONERS WITH RL()<^D HOUNDS. 



Q 

Quartc^rmaster's quarters cjuietly quarantined. Quan- 
trell quaintly (jiuizzinij:, quailiuii;, quickly (juelled. 

R 

Reveille. Rapidan roads. Rappahannock raids. Rose- 
crans. Reno. Rodman. Ransom. Reynolds. "Refugee Ri- 
fles" relished rations. "Royal Reserves" reconnoitering 
round Romney, reorganizing, reinforced "Resolute Regu- 
lars." "Rampant Rangers" retreating rallied, reformed, 
routed refractory rebels, running races, REACHED 
RICHMOND. Returning, rode railroads, released round- 
ing REVIEW. Reconstruction righted rebellious re- 
sumptionists. 



SIXTY-ONE. Started shooting. Sumpter. Scott.— 
Sheridan. Sickels. Schofield. Stoneman. Sumner. Sigel. 
Shields. Sheply. Slocum. Sturgis. Sedgwick. Sharpe. — 
Stanton. Sykes. Shilo. Spottsylvania. Stretchers saved 
sinking sons. Stockades starved sickly suffering skeleton 
soldiers. Sherman started seaward. Secret service saluted 
silently. Sharpshooters scouting. Spies successful strat- 
agems scared Shenandoah's sleepers. Secession sickening. 
Sutlers "skedaddling." South surrenders. Slavery solved. 
STARS STAYING. STRIPES STREAMING. Stopped 
shooting, SIXTY-FIVE. "Sixties" Spartons stood steel 
savin ff states. 



T 



Trains throttled, teams tackled, terror, torture. Trading 
tobacco, telling tales, taking "tamrack," touching triggers. 



s 

Titus took ten towns, Tecnmsch took ten times ten. Te- 
cnmsehs trained troops taking Thomas, tapped telegraphs, 
tramped triumphantly through their territory to tlje ter- 
minus. Twenty thousand thanksgiving tui-keys to the 
tree tops take, then Tecumseh's troops their tasters trained, 
took the turkeys. 




FORAGING. 



UNION. Unum. 
'UNKNOWN.'' 



U 

United. Unconditional Ulysses. — 



V 

Vickshurg's vim veering veteran volunteers viewing 
victory, verily vant[uished vieing vaunting vanguards. — 
Virginia's vixins vernacularly vexed various valiant 
visitors. 



w 

Wilderness wilds worried "weuns," where Wnrreii's war- 
riors were wounded. Worden wielding warfaring water 
weapons, whipped wild wisacres when we went wharfing. 
Wallace's wardrobe wasn't washed weekly, waking watch- 
fulness witnessed. Wellington's Waterloo wasn't what 
Wauhatchie was. Without wincing, wicked Wirz wit- 
nessed wrongs, wretchadness, want, woe, where waneing 
wizens were. Women writing, widows weeping, wheels 
whirling, wreaths wrapped. WELCOME. 

X 

Xystarch. Xyphoid. Xanthous. Xyster. 

Y 

Yes, 3^e young yankee ^'^eomanry's yawp yclept ' 'youuns' ' 
yazoos "yip yip" yells. 



Zagonyi's zigzagging zouaves zenithed zero's zealots. 
Zip, zip, zallicoffer, zip, zip. Z Z z z. 



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BUSHWHACKERS AND GUERILLAS IN SECRET SESSION — 
THE TERROR OF THE BORDER STATES. 

Woman's help on the field, in the hospital, and in the 
Christian Commission was the most noted of any war here- 
tofore known . The American Civil War was twelve times 
greater in the number of engagements than those of the 
five great wars of the last two centuries, namely: The 
Napoleanic war, 19 battles; Franco-Prussian, 16 battles; 
American Revolution, 52 battles; War with England, 1812, 
84 battles; Mexican war, 22 battles; in all, 193 battles. 

There were in the American Civil War 2,261 engage- 
ments being only 68 less than the entire number of im- 
portant battles recorded since the creation of man. Of the 
above 2,261 engagements, 205 of them take rank with the 
great battles of history, being more than double the num- 
ber recorded the first 4,000 years. 




HOSPITAL. 

Xerxes army alone excelled in its numbers and slain 
after crossing the Hellespont, B. C. 414. Alexander the 
Great in his thirteen years conquering the world fought 
only six score and a half battles, none of which except the 
siege of Tyre equalled the siege of Vicksburg. Sherman's 
march to the sea and then to Washington was not equal- 
led by Hannibal's invasion of Italy, or the Picts, Scots and 
Saxons invading the Roman Empire. The most brilliant 
and successful charge of the boys in blue was at Wau- 
hatchie. The most brilliant, but unsuccessful charge of 
the boys in gray was at Gettysburg. Anteitam was in the 
shortest time the greatest slaughter. Fredericksburg was 
the most presumptuous. Victory at Chancellorsville was 
claimed by both sides. Chicamauga was the most hotly 
contested. Gettysburg was the first decisive battle of the 
war. Vicksburg was the longest siege and next impor- 
tant to Gettysburg. Shilo swayed the most frequent to 



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and fro in the balance of victory- Lool^oiit Mountain was, 
"The war in heaven," being above the clouds. Fort Don- 
aldson was the'shortest siege. Fort Pillow was the most 




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CAPTURE OF JEFF. UAVIS, DKESt^ED IN HIS WIFE'S 

CLOTHES, WITH A BUCKET ON HIS ARM, PRJ:- 

TENDING TO GO FOR WATER, MAY 10, '65. 

horrible massacre of prisoners after they had surrendered. 
Corinth was evacuated and captured without firing a gun. 
The siege of Petersburg was the best executed concentra- 
tion of action and simultaneous charge. The Wilderness 
was the most smoky and shortest range fire. Appomattox 
was the funnel of the war, through which Lee's army 

passed into "the lost cause." The last act of the war 

was the capture of Jeff Davis in his wife's curtain drops. 

There were nnore union iiien died of disease than were 



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both killed and wounded. But of all the recollections of 
the war, the saddest is, more union men died of starvation 
in the 16 rebel prisons during the last months of the war, 
than were killed in battle from '61 to '65. 




AXDERSOXVILLE PRISON. 



Waterloo was "the greatest battle of modern times," 
with a loss of 26,976. Anteitam, loss, both sides, 38,348; 
Murfrefesboro, loss, 26,138; Chickamauga, 23,665; Spottsyl- 
vania, 35,441; Chancellorsville, 28,311; Gettysburg, 65,- 
286; Vicksburg, 25,813; Shilo, 24,372; Kennesaw Moun- 
tain, 18,070; Fair Oaks, 12,504; Fredericksburg, 16,929; 
Fisher's Hill, 18,199; Chattanooga, 14,260; Cedar Creek, 
10,105; Corinth, 11,128; Wilderness, 49,137; Petersburg, 
26,526; Gettysburg excelled Blenheim and Culloden. — 
The Civil War ranks with the wars of the greatest nations 
of the earth. 



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Union tr 


oops from 'Gl to '05, 


2,772,480 




' killed, 


()7,05H 




' wounded, 


82,581 




' died of wounds^ 


43,012 




' disease, 


199,720 




' hospital record, treated, 


1,054,423 




' died in hospital, 


188,353 




' troops captured, 


212,608 




' paroled, 


16,431 




' died in the 16 rebel prisons, 


84,072 




' discharged on account of disease 


84,721 




' buried in National cemeteries, 


315,865 




' graves marked unknown, 


143,555 



Total loss of life of union men at close of war, 664,796 

War debt, $5,650,000,000 



Confederate troops from '61 to '65 1,856,956 

" killed, 76,500 

" died of wounds, 65,000 

" disease, 68,821 

" captur'd (including surrender) 476,169 

" paroled (including surrender) 248,599 

" died in prison, • 26,774 

Total loss of life of Confederates at close of war, 236,095 

Surrender of Lee, April 12, 1865, 26,000 

" " " Johnston, April 26, 1865, 29,924 

" " " Kirby Smith, May 26, 1865, 20,000 

" " " Mosby, and others, 16,254 

Total, ' 92,178 

Total engaged on both sides, 4,639,436 

Total loss of life, 900,891 



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WELCOME HOME. 
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G. A. R. ACR08TIC. 

Traitor hands our land would sever; 
Heroes answered, "No, sir, never! 
Erase no stripe or star!" 

Gettysburg a protest thundered ; 
Richmond fell; the Nations wondered! 
Atlanta groaned 'mid fire and smoke; 
Nashville, Vicksburg, Knoxville spoke; 
Donelson was ours! 



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Advancing hosts, with bugle, drunnuer, 
Raleigh rife with mule and driver; 
Mammy Davis then would run; 
Yank says, "Halt, ye son-'v-a-gun!" 

Onward, upward, Btripes and Stars! 
Falls in dust the Stars and Bars! 

Thousands fell along tlie way; 
Honored wounds are seen to-day — 
Empty sleeves, and scars! 

Rebel prisons, woe, privation ! 
Earnest longings, death, starv^ation! 
Pallid faces, groans and pain! 
United land! 'twas not in vain! 
Broken fetters, freedom given ; 
Lincoln spoke, and chains were riven! 
In silence bow, uncovered bead! 
Comrades fallen! heroic dead! 




The answer to the question is on record, "Why was 
there no exchange of prisoners and whj' were union men 
starved while rebel prisoners confined in Northern prisons 
were well cared for." General Grant paroled 12,000 Con- 



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federates at Vicksburg who were, in violation of their 
parole, immediately armed and sent to Lee's army. Then 
when an exchange of prisoners was to be made the gov- 
ernment wanted 12,000 union men for the men Grant 
paroled which the Confederacy refused to do, thus block- 
ading the way. It was the boast of the Confederacy to 
crowd together and starve union men. In 1864 there 
were nearly 88,000 at Andersonville in a pen of 20 acres, 
when General Winder, wlio w^as in command of all the 
rebel prisons, received a dispatch from the Rebel War De- 
partment asking "Have you room for any more prisoners?" 
The answer was, "yes, send them on. We are doing 
more for the Confederacy here, in getting rid of the Yanks, 
than twenty of Lee's best regiments at the front." When 
the North sent provision to their men in rebel prisons, 
General Winder intercepted them and sant them to the 
rebel army, while rations were withheld from union pris- 
oners for days in pretence of punishment for offenses. 
Saying nothing about those who were in command, be- 
tween the boys in blue and the boys in gray the hand 
clasp of charity grows warmer and stronger. 



UNKNOWN 



FRATERNAL ACROSTIC. 

Attention! Not all soldiers sleep 'neathtall shafts of white 

stone! 
ETERNAL He, who marks the sparrow^'s fall, when we 

with reverence stop. 
VIGILANCE He keeps o'er graves that, alas I are marked 

Unknown. 



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IS a flower too much on vacant lot on Memorial day to 

drop ? 
THE boys that sleep in swamps, or fields, in valleys, or 

on mountains, ,, ^ . , 

PRICE they paid, no church bell tolled, no service read, 

no requiem sung. . ^ ^ „„ 

OF all graves the dearest known at memories sweet toun- 

LIBERTY loving Comrades, long, long ago, laid under 
the ground. 

THE blood spattered hospital, the battle field gore of every 

PENALTY paid, in prison to languish and pine, taken, 

facing the foe, , . , -^.i •,. fu^ 

OF graves of starved heroes, dying by mclies withm the 

stockade 
TREASON, never, can cancel that debt which they owe. 

IS there not some mother's boy who fell by the sword? 
DEATH bravely niet, while charging and taking the 

COMRADES,^mmiy, had neither wife, sister, nor mother 
:, to hear the last word. vi Aco- tr^ 

REMEMBER then, the dead who saved the old flag to 
daughters and sons. 

FRATERNITY is binding still closer and closer the blue 

CHARITY g(fes^'farther than anything else since our 

country's first call. 
AND as feeling and prejudice, more and more gives way, 
LOYALTY, ^vill firmly unite and make Americans of 

us all. 




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